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What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?

LucyPurrs said:
OK, so I can't choose- all of these have helped me feel better about myself:
-Age 19, was a "freedom rider" with MLK's SCLC in 1965 in Peach County Georgia registering people to vote.
- In 1991, by myself at age 45, backpacking with scuba gear through 13 islands of Indonesia over a 2 month time period scuba diving along the way. Travelled from east to west starting in Indonesian New Guinea (Irian Jaya back then) and ending in Singapore. So was going in the opposite direction as all other travellers I met. What an incredible blast it was too!
- Quitting smoking after smoking an average of 2 packs per day for 48 years.. Never say never. I truly believed I'd go crazy if I stopped but I didn't.
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Quitting smoking is a BIGGIE.
 
I got the highest GED score in my state's history. That's...kinda sad that that's the accomplishment I'm most proud of.
 
Gritches said:
I got the highest GED score in my state's history. That's...kinda sad that that's the accomplishment I'm most proud of.
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This doesn't surprise me at all. Always figured from your writing that you had a higher education, now I know it's just that you are impressively smart, XD. Don't run yourself down, you contribute so much here.
 
Being invited to join a dance troupe when I was in my twenties, after one class.
Traveling to Italy and staying for a month, without speaking the language, by myself.
Making the Dean's list every year, without even trying to.
Rescuing and helping many cat's, dog's and several birds since I was young.
Opening and running two successful businesses.
 
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Passing GCSE English the second time I took it, passed with an A after studying Shakespeare's Macbeth.
 
Researching the heck out of what to do in New York and actually doing it. I didn't let the taxi driver scam me (had turned off the machine that does the numbers and said that it didn't work) and I recently learned that all of my planning made my aunt jealous when she went with me.
 
When I was a junior in high school, I went through a selection process that took a school year and a half, aimed at selecting the brighest students in the country, and I was chosen. The prize was a full scholarship (airplane ticket, all living expenses paid, plus tuition) to study university almost anywhere in the world, in almost whatever career I wanted, plus an extra year to acquire the language first.
Unfortunately, 18-year-old me was in love, and turned down the opportunity.

My memoir book, with the anecdotes of my family and I living in six countries.

My two kids.
 
Sabrina said:
When I was a junior in high school, I went through a selection process that took a school year and a half, aimed at selecting the brighest students in the country, and I was chosen. The prize was a full scholarship (airplane ticket, all living expenses paid, plus tuition) to study university almost anywhere in the world, in almost whatever career I wanted, plus an extra year to acquire the language first.
Unfortunately, 18-year-old me was in love, and turned down the opportunity.

My memoir book, with the anecdotes of my family and I living in six countries.

My two kids.
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Awww Sabrina, wish you could still go for that university degree! But when we are young we are idealistic and sometimes don't realize the consequences of our decisions and the impact they could have on our lives.
 
LucyPurrs said:
Awww Sabrina, wish you could still go for that university degree! But when we are young we are idealistic and sometimes don't realize the consequences of our decisions and the impact they could have on our lives.
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You have no idea how many times I’ve revisited that decision. I’ve tried to convince myself that my life would have been another one, that I wouldn’t have had my kids, or lived in so many contries, but truth is, that’s the biggest regret of my life. Irony: the guy that I was in love with, dumped me after six months, and he got to study abroad later in life, but for a PHD, in Japan. He had been also in the chosen group, but had decided to stay in the country because they didn’t sponsor his career abroad because it was too expensive (medicine).
Hence, I decided to stay too :rolleyes:.
 
Sabrina said:
You have no idea how many times I’ve revisited that decision. I’ve tried to convince myself that my life would have been another one, that I wouldn’t have had my kids, or lived in so many contries, but truth is, that’s the biggest regret of my life. Irony: the guy that I was in love with, dumped me after six months, and he got to study abroad later in life, but for a PHD, in Japan. He had been also in the chosen group, but had decided to stay in the country because they didn’t sponsor his career abroad because it was too expensive (medicine).
Hence, I decided to stay too :rolleyes:.
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Awww! So maddening! (about the guy who dumped you that is).
 
LucyPurrs said:
Awww! So maddening! (about the guy who dumped you that is).
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In a way, yes, but in the other, thank God I dodged that bullet! After me, his personal life became the biggest mess I’ve ever seen in real life.

In fact, what’s maddening is how I could have been so stupid. But one good thing about this forum (no offense intended!) is that one feels company in this paradox of being intellectually very smart, but being very stupid taking personal life decisions.

One learns though, painfully and slowly, but one learns with experience.
 
Sabrina said:
In a way, yes, but in the other, thank God I dodged that bullet! After me, his personal life became the biggest mess I’ve ever seen in real life.

In fact, what’s maddening is how I could have been so stupid. But one good thing about this forum (no offense intended!) is that one feels company in this paradox of being intellectually very smart, but being very stupid taking personal life decisions.

One learns though, painfully and slowly, but one learns with experience.
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Ah but the key is THAT ONE LEARNS from experience. So many don't.
 
Right now its tied between a few.
-Being an eagle scout
- volunteering to a wildland firefighter
-attempting to further my education
-My "success" rodeoing
 
There are a few things I've accomplished that I am proud of:
  • Graduating with honors from college in a degree that I actually cared about
  • Obtaining my driver's license and not getting into an accident until almost exactly five years later
  • Finding the love of my life and having her say "yes" when I proposed
 
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